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According to Frank Lavin, former US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, ‘trade negotiations should focus on managing what’s good rather than managing what’s bad'. However, US...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Roland Freudenstein, the Policy Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. They discuss this year's European elections, if it really is a title fight...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Frank Lavin, the founder and CEO of Export Now, who has served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore and undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade. They discuss U.S. trade...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Elena Bryan, a Senior Fellow at ECIPE and a Managing Director at Pilot Roc Global Strategies a trade and regulatory consultancy in the United States. The discussion covers the...

One of the notable aspects of China’s foreign policy in recent years has been the increasing focus on developing soft power. Beijing has arguably invested more in this area than any other country...

Dr Kenichi Kawasaki, Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and a leading expert on quantitative modelling of trade liberalisation, revisited ECIPE on March...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and national security are often adversarial to one another. This is particularly the case with outward FDI from China targeting strategic infrastructure in various...

The old adage was that the future of Asia would be Europe’s past, yet Europe’s role in the region’s future has often been given little consideration. The rise of China and its implications for...

The history of international economic cooperation teaches us one important lesson: every form of cooperation will die – essentially if not formally – if it does not adapt to new conditions for...

There's no point any longer in pretending: The geo-economic race over the Asia-Pacific is now on - and in the open. Will the TPP coalition declare victory at the next week's APEC summit – and...